Lives in Cricket No 40 - Edwin Smith

3 Contents Introduction 5 Chapter One Early days 7 Chapter Two The young cricketer 14 Chapter Three Carnage at Chesterfield 20 Chapter Four First team regular – and capped 26 Chapter Five A hundred wickets 33 Chapter Six Being a professional 37 Chapter Seven Ashes summer 45 Chapter Eight West Indian summer 49 Chapter Nine Les 55 Chapter Ten A decade ends 60 Chapter Eleven Setbacks at the start of the 63 Swinging Sixties Chapter Twelve Family man 69 Chapter Thirteen Bottom 74 Chapter Fourteen Summer of drama 80 Chapter Fifteen Testimonial year 86 Chapter Sixteen Match-winning captain 93 Chapter Seventeen Lord’s in the summer of ‘69 98 Chapter Eighteen Centenary summer 105 Chapter Nineteen An impossible task 111 Chapter Twenty The retired cricketer 119 Chapter Twenty-One Master on the baize 124 Chapter Twenty-Two Team mates and friends 128 Postscript 135 Acknowledgements 136 Bibliography 137 Statistics 138 Index 140